The Queen of All that Lives Quotes

“I remember the call I got when they found her. All those dead men. She’d been untouched. That’s what happens when you corner my wife. That’s what happens when you throw her into the fray.
I’m an idiot for trying to protect her this whole time. She was never the one who needed protecting.
Everyone else was.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Forgetting doesn’t mean it never happened; it means not dealing with the consequences.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“She and I are love and war. Peace and violence. I have taught her how to be a worse person, and she’s taught me how to be a better one. I fuel her hate, and she fuels my love.
I’ve torn the world apart and now I need my queen to help me stitch humanity back together, and my heart along with it.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“He laughs. “Nire bihotza, I’m not. This is true. Apparently there are seven stars— Seven Sisters— but you can only see six of them in the night sky. The seventh is ‘lost’.”
We’re both quiet for a moment while I ponder his words. The night air stirs my hair. Mine and the king’s.
He leans in close to my ear. “It’s because I caught her,” he whispers.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“My heart, my wife, my life. I will love you until the day I die.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Someone hurt my monster.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“I push my body off the ground, blood seeping between my toes. For the first time in over a century I stand on my own two feet. The gown I wear drapes off my shoulders, and my drenched skirts stick to my legs.
I am a thing made of lace and blood. Swathed in silk and dripping with the dark deeds of men. I suppose I’m finally clothed accordingly.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“I know all about broken things. I came from a broken house, and a broken land full of broken people. I have a broken soul and a broken heart. This man doesn't know it, but all his cracks align with mine.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“If I didn't think you were the devil, I'd say you'd be able to seduce even him.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Now I’ve had two men in my life choose me over the welfare of a nation. First my father, and now my husband.
Never again will I underestimate this man’s devotion. He will ruin countries for me.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“I didn’t marry you because you were a pretty thing. I married you because you were a wicked one.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“A grim smile stretches across my face.
He’s coming.
The devil is coming for me.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“He moves the hand I still hold captive to my face, touching my scar. “You fought for me, killed for me. You wore my crown and carried my child. Don’t distort what you mean to me, what you’ve always meant to me. “And I’m going to keep you in this bed until you understand something: I won’t let you go. Everything you are is mine, and everything I am is yours.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Serenity, the sun would sooner fall from the sky. Even when you slept, I couldn’t stay away from you.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“You can’t kill me, even now, even though I deserve it— and I do deserve it.”
I pull back enough to get a good look at him.
The king I knew took, and took, and took because he felt it was his right. And now, what he is essentially saying is that what he did wasn’t his right.
I narrow my eyes at him. “Have you grown a conscience?” It’s an almost preposterous thing to consider.
“Age gives you wisdom, not a conscience,” he says as we wind our way through his halls.
“And where was that wisdom when it came to me?” I ask.
His eyes look anguished when he says, “It was wisdom that kept me from waking you, nire bihotza, not the other way around.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“For the first time in a hundred years, my soul flares to life, my heart along with it. And it hurts so fucking bad.
No one’s ever been in my situation, so I couldn’t have foreseen that love doesn’t function as other things do. It took decades for it to fade, and an instant for it to come roaring back.
As far as my heart is concerned, no time has passed.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“I glance down at the hand touching my chest. I follow it back to its owner. A soldier in his late twenties stares back. He’s not the king, and these are not the king’s men. Which can only mean …
I got fucking abducted.
Again.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Her body is so small for such a force of nature. Sometimes I forget that. She takes up such a big part of my world.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“I am chaos. I am the undoing of man. And all the world will fall to my feet.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“How benevolent of them. And where was their compassion when they bombed thousands of innocents that day?”
“Some sacrifices needed to be made—”
“Then you die.” I snap. “If you think sacrificing any life is necessary, then I want to see you give yours up first.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Can’t I touch my wife?”
He said those words once before, and this time around they level my heart. Even after all these years, he remembers them.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“If that is what is needed of me, then that is precisely what I will do.
Even if it breaks me.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“The fool I was who first laid eyes on her all those years ago did one thing right— he saw redemption within his reach, and he snatched it up for himself. And then he sabotaged it again, and again.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Freedom or death.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“The queen lives.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“It’s a hurt so vast I can’t see any end to it. I could fit entire galaxies into the space it’s carved out for itself inside me.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“A hundred years of life to become whatever it is you want. And a hundred years of death to become whatever it is they want.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“I am a thing made of lace and blood. Swathed in silk and dripping with the dark deeds of men.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives

“Was this what love was like? Not just something to fight and die for, but something that didn’t draw attention to itself unless you looked for it?”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Lives